NEWLY crowned manager of the month Roland Nilsson admits his side only have themselves to blame after squandering the chance of three points at Millwall.

"I wondered if the curse of the manager of the month award would be mentioned," he said after being questioned about the honour.

"But we made our own bad luck today. We made very small mistakes in absolutely the wrong areas of the pitch which cost us the game, so we are all very disappointed because we thought we played well enough to win.

"I was pleased with the way we came back from behind and at 2-1 up, we were playing well enough to score another goal. But our mistakes and David Thompson's sending off contributed to the final result."

He added: "But on the positive side, I think we played the best football at times since I took over as manager. We were just missing that third goal to kill the game off.

"We were bound to get a defeat sooner or later but this game wasn't one we felt should have ended the way it did."